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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.

Bannus

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Definition:
A proclamation.
Bannus

Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

Definition:
In old English law. A proclamation. Bannus regis; the king's proclamation, made by the voice of a herald, forbidding all present at the trial by combat to interfere either by motion or word, whatever they might see or hear. Bract, fol. 142.